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Sunday night, Carol Burnett returns to the national television in a version of Once Upon a Mattress. She plays Queen Aggravian. The role comes some 40 years after Burnett launched her career with her Tony-winning portrayal of Princess in the Broadway version of Mattress.

If you want to escape the holiday fantasies in theaters for a dose of realistic dysfunction, The Family Stone may be for you. The film, starring Diane Keaton, Sarah Jessica Parker and Dermont Mulroney, is an offbeat mixture of comic crises and the bite of the real.

A new survey shows that museum collections are deteriorating. More than 3,000 institutions participated in the study by ranking their own preservation practices, and the results were alarming.

Love stories come and go, but few have the durablity of Tristan & Isolde. People have been fascinated by this Dark Ages tale of star-crossed passion and devotion that would not die. Director Kevin Reynolds has turned out a satisfactory version of this story of manly men and fervent women.

French musician Benjamin Biolay has been a hit-maker in his home country for years, praised for his songs and his innovative collaborations with other performers. But he's not well known in the United States. Music critic Chris Douridas of member station KCRW talks about Biolay's work with Madeleine Brand.

Television critic Andrew Wallenstein reviews VH1's So Jewtastic, a new documentary about the hipness of Judaism in popular culture.

Actor, musician and vocalist Jamie Foxx discusses his activism in the Stanley Tookie Williams case, and his new album Unpredictable.

Ed Gordon talks with TV and film actor James McDaniel, who stars in the new off-Broadway performance of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play A Soldier's Story.

Forty-six years after Frank Lloyd Wright's death, the architecture school and the fellowship that bear his name are fighting for their survival -- in part because of their unconventional nature. Ted Robbins visits Taliesin West -- Wright's home, school and studio in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Following in the footsteps of Chicago, two other Broadway musicals come to the silver screen: Rent and The Producers. Cross-pollination isn't new, but it's becoming more common -- and more profitable.